Natalia Junquera

One year after leaving Spain amid accusations of financial irregularities, the former monarch is hoping to return to the country, but this is unlikely to happen any time soon

Right-wing parties are expected to fiercely oppose a blueprint that expands on a 2007 law, provides greater support for exhumation efforts and seeks to eliminate the Francisco Franco Foundation

A new website and documentary reveal how the dictatorship targeted its enemies in this sector, with many imprisoned, sent into exile and executed

Many establishments in Tenerife, Ibiza and Benidorm are shut due to a lack of customers. The British decision to keep the country off its green list list has been a blow to the sector

According to the auctioneers, the item was given to the Spanish dictator by Mussolini’s son-in-law to congratulate him on his victory in the Civil War

A compilation of the personal belongings found among bones and bullets marks the 20th anniversary of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory

The government will be the arbiter of what constitutes such stories with no representatives from the media or journalist associations involved in the process

The Cabinet is due to meet on Sunday morning to approve the emergency measure, which counts on the backing of the majority of the regions to give them a legal framework for coronavirus restrictions

Government announces €750,000 in grants, nine years after conservatives slashed the budget for historical memory projects

The government is counting on EU funds to help with the economic recovery, but faces political disputes at home over the use of the money

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez made the decision after contacting opposition leaders and scientific experts

After overnight deaths reach a new peak, the executive is also considering extending the state of alarm until April 26

Spain’s biggest labor unions also support the move, but businesses warn of “negative impact” on companies

The vote will take place ahead of polls that have been announced in Catalonia, but that are yet to get an official date

The leader of the conservative Popular Party withdraws earlier offers of support, saying that PM Pedro Sánchez has left the country “in the hands of terrorists and coup plotters”

The caretaker prime minister is set to win a simple majority by a very small margin in Congress today, meaning any last-minute setbacks could lead to fresh elections

A new exhibition showcases apparently insignificant objects that were nursed as treasures by the families of the executed and the exiled

Pedro Sánchez is meeting with leaders of right-of-center parties to determine their willingness to endorse him if his deal with a Catalan separatist party ultimately fails

The conservatives have picked up a deputy in the Basque Country, meaning the caretaker PM will need to secure key abstentions or support from another party to retake power

While the caretaker government wants to turn it into a place of memory and reconciliation, long-term plans are on hold until after the national election of November 10

There were 51 arrests and 125 people were injured following a night of clashes between police and protesters who lit fires and erected barricades in Barcelona, Tarragona, Sabadell and Lleida

Regional premier Isabel Díaz Ayuso was attacking the plans of caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to exhume ex-dictator Francisco Franco, but the comments are out of step with the conservative group’s strategy for the upcoming election campaign

Family members of Republicans interred in the controversial site want to exhume their loved ones and give them a dignified burial, but they say the process is taking too long

Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is working on a new strategy to win the support of the anti-austerity party Unidas Podemos, which refused to back his investiture bid in July

Felipe González and José María Aznar agreed that centrality has been lost in recent years